Talk:Five Ponds Wilderness Area

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[edit] Dubious claim

"This is one of the few locations in the northeastern United States where stands of virgin timber can be found"

False. There are plenty of virgin tracts of timber in the two large wilderness areas in the Catskills alone, as Michael Kudish's book can tell you; I'm sure there are stands in northern New England too. Did the article mean something else? I know I've heard it's one of the largest virgin timber stands in the country ... maybe that's what you meant? Can you provide some source for what you'ren talking about? Daniel Case 03:22, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Two things, this comes from the State Land Master Plan so I'm hesitant to doubt the claim outright. Second, I think there's a distinction between virgin and old-growth forest. New York has a lot of old growth forests, but nearly all of them were logged in the past. FPWA is often described as the largest remaining stand of forest that was never logged in human history. [1] Ari 11:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't always trust the APA to get these things right. They (and DEC for that matter) have made mistakes in other planning documents.

There are large tracts in the interior of, say, the Slide Mountain Wilderness Area that Kudish says show no evidence of logging (largely because they were so remote). I think what they meant here is that it's the largest stand of loggable timber (as in, something that could make money even today) that has never been cut. Let's go with "largest" instead of "only". Daniel Case 13:16, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

That works for me. Ari Epstein 19:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)